cheap FPGA recommendations?

[Costia]

I am an electric engineering student and i would like to experiment with an FPGA - not specifically for mining.
what would you recommend as a cheap starter kit?
I am thinking on using it for audio/image compression/decompression and mining experiments
I am thinking specifically about fpga since so far i mostly had to deal with micro controllers and software, and now would like to experiment with hardware.
Is there a sub 100$ option?

[rjk]

I am an electric engineering student and i would like to experiment with an FPGA - not specifically for mining.
what would you recommend as a cheap starter kit?
I am thinking on using it for audio/image compression/decompression and mining experiments
I am thinking specifically about fpga since so far i mostly had to deal with micro controllers and software, and now would like to experiment with hardware.
Is there a sub 100$ option?

There isn't anything that cheap, but you may wish to consider either Icarus or Ztex, because they have lots of I/O options. See http://bitcoinfpga.com/ for a good comparison of various FPGA options.

[2112]

Is there a sub 100$ option?

Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard

http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-S6MB-LX9.htm

$89.00

[Costia]

thanks
its soooo cute 

[pusle]

Digilent has several boards with academic discount:

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,400&Cat=10&FPGA


The Atlys @ 199USD  looks like a steal if you're gonna do something more heavy.

[Redi]

Is there a sub 100$ option?

Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard

http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-S6MB-LX9.htm

$89.00

And how much can this board give? 10MH/s?

[MiningBuddy]

http://www.altera.co.uk/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html
Gets about 20mhs, but a great platform to learn on imo.

[goxed]

http://www.altera.co.uk/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html
Gets about 20mhs, but a great platform to learn on imo.

I used this a lot. Special price for univ. orders.
http://www.xilinx.com/univ/xupv5-lx110t.htm